Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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628 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III of Tasmania, which in 1910 has tardily come into line with the rest of Australia. It delayed for a long time the intro- duction of satisfactory land taxation, the main object of which was of course to break up large estates for closer settlement. Attempts have been made from time to time to render the Council more democratic, but the House has carefully restricted the efforts, and it is remarkable that in a period of fifty-six years so little has been done to change the constitution of the House. When created in 1856 by the Constitution Act it was provided that there should be eighteen members of the Council to have a term of office extending for twelve years, one-third retiring after four years and the state being one constituency. The franchise was fixed, as far as the rental qualification was concerned, at £25 a year. No change was made until 1881, when the number of members was increased to twenty-four, in view of the increased population of the state, and the term of office was reduced to nine years, one-third of the members retiring every three years. The state was divided into four districts for electoral purposes. It was twenty years before the Constitution was again altered, though in 1899 a refer- endum taken under resolution of the Assembly of December 22, 1898, affirmed the principle of the householder suffrage as suggested in a Bill of 1898. In 1901 the number of members, in view of federation, was reduced to eighteen, and the term of office to six years, half to retire every three years. But not until 1907 was the £25 annual rental qualification reduced. It was only then reduced because of pressure exercised by Mr. Price’s Government,” which had succeeded in inducing the Governor to grant a penal dissolution for the purpose of arranging for the steps contemplated in the Act of 1901 in the case of deadlocks, which had never vet 1 See Act No. 236; a deadlock provision was introduced bys. 16. If after a Bill had twice passed in the circumstances given above (p. 536)—it was rejected by the Legislative Council, the Governor could dissolve both Houses or issue writs for the election of one or fwo members for each division of the Council electorate. So also Act No. 779 of 1901. tf. House of Assembly Debates, 1906, Sess. 2, pp. 524 seq.

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